Beta Keys are [u]First Come, First Serve[/u] I have mine, all my friends have theirs, now its your turn.
The game takes place in 1989, we thought the Cold War was over, that peace would finally come but one day in a sunny morning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics launches a surprise attack the United States itself.
Join match in progress 16 player games where you and your teammates must work [u]together[/u] with your platoon types (armour, support, air, infantry) to capture as many control points on the map as you can before the timer ends, the side with the most captured control points wins the match.
"War is coming home."
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Looks good! I haven't had a good commie-shooting game for years!
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Unfortunately for you, us Commies can now shoot back. Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
In communist Russia, gun shoots you!
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Truer words have never been spoken.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I love how Blayne answers his own question with "the wrong one." Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
So this is a modern day "Red Dawn", where communists *somehow* just pop up out of nowhere in the middle of the United States, eh?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
no they landed in unmarked container ships and paratrooped in, watch the videos.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
You have to remember that during the cold war, the US was not at all paranoid about a Russian invasion, so they would have ignored hundreds of military airplanes filling with troops and flying directly over America.
It's all really just a big misunderstanding. The Soviet troops were having a birthday party and all decided to come to the US for a Whopper, and when they didn't have any US currency, the manager of BK threw a fit and called in the national guard.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
more info here.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
The united states basically has all of the 'real' advantages. Better tech, better military, better economic structure, better system of governance, better political position, and won't wink out of superpower status when its doddering, centralized structure implodes.
basically the only advantage I would give them would be home ground status except oh wait Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
RED DAWN!!!!!!!!
ITS HAPPENING ALL OVER AGAIN!!
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
I'm on the outside... looking in.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I'm not very impressed with the graphics, honestly.
Also, Sierra should be concentrating on their 'So You Want to Be a Hero' series.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I gave it a shot, but it didn't seem that exciting. I was hoping for better.
Umm what settings did you have it on? Crappy Pentium 346 Low? I think its a completely innovative way of playing an RTS, no basis, no reosurce gathering just gather points slowly over time based on how many units there are on the field and direct combat right away. AND there's teamwork involved as well.
Not a mass game where its a 300 blips fighting another 300 blips.
quote: The united states basically has all of the 'real' advantages. Better tech, better military, better economic structure, better system of governance, better political position, and won't wink out of superpower status when its doddering, centralized structure implodes.
basically the only advantage I would give them would be home ground status except oh wait
Erm, no.
In war time most of those are irrelevant, also in 1989 Soviet military tech was on par with the United States, the T-80 was a match for the Abrams, their helicopters can take out ours, and in a situation where both forces are spread over a large front if used correctly theyre hardware can still hurt our hardware.
quote:Better tech, better military
In the Cold War a large reason why there was a cold war was because the armed militaries of the USSR and the USA were pretty much on par, I would say that until the M1 Abrams was in full scale production the Soviet T-80 was the best tank in the world and can still hold its own versus the M1.
quote: better economic structure
While by this time the USSR economy was stagnating this in no way means that they're ability to produce military hardware was in any way dimisnished, also in the 1980's the costs and complexities of modern war equipment is such that even a super power economy has difficulties, the USA caanot churn out Abrams and missiles the same way it could churn out Shermans 50 years back.
quote: better system of governance, better political position, and won't wink out of superpower status when its doddering, centralized structure implodes.
In war time, these are all irrelevant as history has shown us, a totalitarian system can keep itself in power perpetually as long as there is a major war.
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